OpenBSD 7.9 arrived just a couple of days after project lead Theo de Raadt's birthday. Our congratulations to both. The last four months or so have seen the fastest succession of security issues in ...

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A multi-stage attack on Linux devices began with an exposed F5 BIG-IP edge appliance and pivoted to an internal Confluence ...

Unleash the power of Python without giving up Windows.

Python 3.15 introduces an immutable or ‘frozen’ dictionary that is useful in places ordinary dicts can’t be used. Only very rarely does Python add a new standard data type. Python 3.15, when it’s ...

A Florida python hunter captured a 202-pound female Burmese python in the Everglades. The captured snake is the second heaviest on record in Florida, measuring 16 feet, 10 inches long. Burmese pythons ...

Through the looking glass: A half-century-old magnetic tape containing the only known copy of Unix v4 has been found and recovered by the University of Utah's School of Computing. The nine-track 3M ...

The native just-in-time compiler in Python 3.15 can speed up code by as much as 20% or more, although it’s still experimental. JITing, or “just-in-time” compilation, can make relatively slow ...

Comedy legends unveil a plaque to 'Monty Python's first curry'. There can't be many memorials that feature a giant foot squashing a globe. But then there aren't many plaque-worthy subjects like Monty ...

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A documentary film about the programming language 'Python,' titled ' Python: The Documentary | An origin story,' was released on YouTube on Friday, August 29, 2025. Anyone can watch it for free. The ...

Picture this: it’s January 19th, 2038, at exactly 03:14:07 UTC. Somewhere in a data center, a Unix system quietly ticks over its internal clock counter one more time. But instead of moving forward to ...